This study includes five data files focusing on stock
market fluctuations during the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Vietnam
War is more heavily emphasized, with four datasets: Part 1 presents
the Dow-Jones industrial daily averages from January 1964 to December
1968, Part 2 contains the net daily changes for the same period, Part
3 lists the number of deaths published in the weekly casualty list
during the war, and Part 4 records the net changes in the Dow Jones
industrial averages and in the stocks of ten firms with substantial
holdings in less ... (more info)

This study includes five data files focusing on stock
market fluctuations during the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Vietnam
War is more heavily emphasized, with four datasets: Part 1 presents
the Dow-Jones industrial daily averages from January 1964 to December
1968, Part 2 contains the net daily changes for the same period, Part
3 lists the number of deaths published in the weekly casualty list
during the war, and Part 4 records the net changes in the Dow Jones
industrial averages and in the stocks of ten firms with substantial
holdings in less developed countries and 15 defense-related
industries, on 94 days selected as significant in terms of war
events. Finally, the Korean War is represented in Part 5, which
contains Dow Jones industrial changes on 76 event days.

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these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-03

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB7382.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.